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The SCALE Team is excited to share that Ken Thompson will be joining us as a keynote speaker at SCALE 20X. Ken Thompson designed and co-created UNIX, UTF-8, Plan 9, and Golang among other technologies that have been foundational to modern technology and computer science. Join him at SCALE 20X on Sunday March 12. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/keynote-ken-thompson